Just gotta go to the bathrule

https://piefed.world/post/656128

Is that a door with a bolt latch partly behind the tub?!
And the tub + toilet going on top of a carpet?
If I remember right, this stoked accusations of AI art being used in DC backgrounds.
Isn’t this post/screenshot from before the novelai leaks and stable diffusion hit it big? Wasnt that like October 2022?
You remember wrong. It’s from 2016, long before AI art was a thing.
So AI slop before the AI. Wonder where AI learned to be bad from?
I get what you’re saying, but i want to remind people: AI doesnt learn! LLMs don’t think nor remember, it is only a fancy prediction model. It is more analogous to phone texting word prediction. It cant do anything remotely human-like.
Agreed, got trained would have been better. Learned can mean that, but implies a bit more than was meant.
They dont call it machine learning for nothing. The process it learned isnt too far off how biological neurons work, except instead of random chemical interations… machine neurals use…math
Yeah designers and illustrators have been using sloppy technical shortcuts since long before AI, speaking as a designer/illustrator
Feet, hands, it’s all the same thing if you can’t draw, right
I assume it is tile, but a bathroom that large would have a designer who wouldn't have the tile pattern clip under the front of a toilet so it is still terrible.
Maybe it’s a Murphy tub?
Considering what we’re looking at, this is the most sensible explanation. WTF
Forgetting to drain it before it flipped up would be a nightmare
No, that’s the only way it drains.
Do not check where the carpet goes
I love your username.
My professors for the CS class on Parallelism and concurrency was making an analogy between different functions and lego bricks. At one point presenting a function and the associated lego brick, decorated with nice flames, he droped: “This lego brick turns out to be so good that it is litterally on fire”. I liked that.
I bet she’s whacked her shin on that thing so many times
My brother lived in an apartment in Chicago for a couple years. Apartments there are usually the whole floor on the thin but deep building. It took him almost a year before he noticed there was a full size door behind his refrigerator. He never bothered to figure out where it went as that was the edge of the building(external wall). So it was just weird. That apartment was full of stuff like that. It had another door that looked like it was from Willy Wonka(about 1/8 the size of normal). There was also an attic hatch. The typical drywall on a square frame section of trim. The issue was it was only like ~18” diagonal. He figured it was like an access panel to plumbing or something…but nope. Just went to the attic but you could really only stick your head through unless you were a child.
Being upset at that bathroom is not unreasonable.
Yeah. Though, boots and cape to the bathroom is pretty standard
It is on Halloween and nights out patrolling for criminals.
Clearly Gotham landlords don’t give a shit lol.
Landlords in Burnside are known to cut corners.
I have seen the absolute ‘this semi-historic building was demolished a few years later’ bad landlords, and the bathroom situation wasn’t quite this bad.
That bathroom is massive!
That’s no help when you can’t enter it.
It’s of huge help when you can’t leave.
I don’t see any visible hinges. That door swings out.
Not a problem if you enter every room through the window.
that’s gotta be $3500/mo just for it
this is so shitty, that it has to have a rl counterpart. why would you draw that if you could not?
I’ve lived in shitty old apartments where they moved the door location and just sealed the old door.
Either this is inspired by a shitty bathroom the artist had lived with once, or they intended to make it a shower and they changed it to a tub last second, probably so they could add a bathing scene.

This is definitely a scene that could exist irl though.

  • Apartment was built with a family layout and two entrances to the bathroom (this used to exist yes)
  • Apartment was converted to a shared living thing
  • Layout was remodeled and second entrance closed off because it now lead to a bedroom instead of living room or something
  • Someone wanted a bathtub and there was no reason not to put it infront of the unused door
You’d still tile at least a little about e the tub, and not have just straight drywall.
If you can afford that yes :D
And the rug going under each fixture?
You’re assuming it’s a rug, but it could easily be a art deco tiled floor. That honestly was the least confusing part. I’ve lived in dozens of places that had similar floor patterns. One house I rented had bright pink tile in a similar pattern but it also went up half the wall doing the same thing.
Sure, but I don’t see even a hint of grout lines, and I’d expect to at least see a few of them.

If it’s marble it wouldn’t have large grout lines or tiles. I realize I didn’t say that in my earlier comment, although I meant to.

True. You’re right about that, but then you have a 20 something in, I’m assuming a city apartment bathroom, remodeled so a door is being blocked, with a pink tub and bath, and marble tile floor–and I remain skeptical.
The more we talk the more I’m convinced the artist was drawing from a specific shitty apartment they had or knew about.
Patterned plastic carpet
Relatable. I live in an apartment with similarish retarded layout. Moving in a week. I can’t wait to get the fuck out of here.
what the hell is a hroom

Ent pondering noise.

(I know, I get the joke, but still… HROOM)

took me a second
Did AI this bathroom?
This is pretty old so I don’t think so.
Was it AI generated or something?
What?? Only one toilet?
Simple explanation: the bathtub is actually a mimic.

That’s a sink plunger, not a toilet plunger.

TL;DR Batgirl occasionally tosses a brick

It’s a general purpose plunger, I have never seen the specialized toilet version irl.
Huh. I’ve seen both, but never realized the sink one was for the sink, because it seems like everyone has that one for the toilet.